Results for 'charity scam'
Ransomware making big money through “big game hunting”
July 14, 2023 - Ransomware generates big money for the groups behind it, with new research confirming (some) of the scale of the problem. Chainalysis,...
What privacy can get you
January 24, 2023 - The fight for data privacy must be won in the middle. No declaration, no call to arms, will sway the worst...
Wrestling star Mick Foley’s Twitter compromised, selling PS5 consoles
August 1, 2022 - One of the biggest wrestling stars around, Mick Foley, had his Twitter account hijacked in an attempt to legitimize a very...
Fake USA for UNHCR site wants your Ukraine donations in Bitcoin
April 28, 2022 - Since Russia began invading Ukraine in late February, many organizations have set up donation pages to aid the most heavily affected:...
Four key cybersecurity practices during geopolitical upheaval
March 3, 2022 - Russia’s continued invasion of Ukraine has altered the landscape of cybersecurity threats facing organizations both near and far from the physical...
Red Cross begs attackers to “Do the right thing” after family reunion service compromised
January 20, 2022 - Restoring Family Links is a program most commonly associated with The Red Cross. It’s been around since 1870, and aims to...
Campaign launched to delay social media end-to-end encryption
January 19, 2022 - The many issues surrounding end-to-end encryption (E2EE) are ever-present. They usually spring up when something that could potentially affect the safety...
Instagram’s memorialize feature abused to memorialize…Instagram’s boss
November 15, 2021 - The mechanisms for memorialising the social network accounts of people who’ve died haven’t really suffered a lot of scrutiny up until...
ID theft ghouls targeting Surfside victims is appalling, but no surprise
July 21, 2021 - We’ve written at length about account compromise and identity theft, and how criminals will often hijack accounts belonging to dead people....
11-13 year old girls most likely to be targeted by online predators
April 26, 2021 - The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), a not-for-profit organization in England whose mission is “to eliminate child sexual abuse imagery online”, has...
